Produktart
Zustand
Einband
Weitere Eigenschaften
Gratisversand
Land des Verkäufers
Verkäuferbewertung
Verlag: Henry Colburn, London, 1825
Anbieter: Arca Amoris Alitis, New York, NY, USA
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Two quarto volumes (the bindings 11-5/8 x 9-1/2 x 2-1/2 in.; the pages 11-1/4 x 8-7/8 in.). Complete (except half-titles omitted) with the original 13 inserted engraved plates and two engraved text illustrations (the fore-piece and tail-piece of the Life); extra-illustrated with 151 additional inserted plates. Collates (vol. I) a2(?)-5(?), b1-5(?), c-e^4, B-3Z^4, 4A1-3: xlii, 498, [2], xlix, [1] pp., plus 8 inserted plates as listed and 84 additional inserted plates, and [2 ll. (binder's blanks)] front and rear; (vol. II), [A]2, B-2X^4, 2Y^2, 2Z^4, 4A-5Q^4: 1 l. (title recto), 348 pp., 1 l. (section title Correspondence recto, actually being pp. [1-2]), vii, [1], 3-311, [1] pp., plus 5 inserted plates as listed (one double-page) and 67 additional inserted plates, and [2 ll. (binder's blanks)] front and rear. Bound by Bayntun of Bath (its gilt stamp on lower front dentelles) in full red crushed levant morocco. Covers, cover edges and dentelles gilt-tooled in retrospective 17th-century panel style, spines gilt-tooled in six compartments with raised bands, red watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt, red silk marker ribbons (the ends frayed), maroon felt-lined chemises and full maroon morocco gilt-tooled slipcases. Extra-illustrated with the insertion of 151 additional plates of portraits, scenes, maps and other subjects, meticulously scaled by mounting, trimming or folding, and including preliminary, large-paper, before-letters and india proofs. The additional frontispiece portrait is, most unusually, a mounted original color photograph taken from the painting after which the engraved frontispiece portrait was designed. A full compilation of the inserted plates, executed in line and stipple engraving, etching and mezzotint, some in bistre and generally made within the span 1730-1830 (other than the additional photographic portrait frontispiece), is available on request. The condition is generally fine, the plates and their mounts bright and clean and with only scattered instances of faint foxing, the bindings exceptional, saving four particular condition exceptions: (i) shallow rectangular scratch and tiny terminal bump at lower corner of rear cover vol. I; (ii) almost imperceptible traces where the morocco bookplates now tipped in at the rear endleaves once adhered to the front silk pastedowns; (iii) unpredictable occurrences of offsetting from inserted plates or text blocks onto facing or trailing pages, generally none, sometimes faint or mild, sometimes moderate; (iv) the half-titles are omitted. (The signature registration is demonstrably eccentric at the first half-title. The inexplicable I, b5 suggests a half-folio [pi]1-2 in the first volume (as evident at II, 2Y^2), so that the collation would become [pi]^2, a^4, b^4, etc. (but one of these missing the half-title leaf). A binder might have chosen to omit the half-titles if the first was printed out of position and would have required a special stub for inclusion.) Among the sources of the additional plates in this set are Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata, 1819 (its multifold St. Paul's Cross and Cathedral the sole plate found in the Folger Library's collection on-line), Bowyer's Historie Gallery plates of 1802-4 (with the sublime Monument of Mary), the plates from the original folio parts of Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, 1823 ff. (with the rare "La Belle Stuart," the prototype for Britannia), Vertue's folio plates (14 in all) for The Heads of the Kings of England proper, 1736, and the folio plates by Vertue and Houbraken for the iconic The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain ["Birch's Heads"], 1743-1752 (including an ingenuously fitted Sir Isaac Newton). General references: The Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature (New York, 1902), no. 75; John Drinkwater, Pepys His Life & Character (London, 1930), pp. 207-8. Provenance: Elizabeth Creve Caldwell (gilt-tooled leather bookplates).
Verlag: Henry Colburn, London, 1825
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first printed edition of this famous diary, and therefore contemporaneous account of the fire of London. Edited by Lord Braybrooke using John Smith's transcription of the original diary. Illustrated, with a frontispiece of Pepys and a further seven plates to volume I. With a frontispiece and four plates to volume II. With the half-titles to both volumes. With the bookplate of Sir John Smith, Bart, to the front pastedown. This is the first published edition of Pepys' diary in full. Lord Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, is the editor of this edition. He was a British Whig politician who wrote several historical works and was president of the Camden Society for several years. He used John Smith's transcription of the diary for this publication. John Smith was the first person to decipher the diary in its entirety. Previously small sections had been deciphered. It transpired that Pepys' original diaries were written in a shorthand system devised by Thomas Skelton. Smith's transcription is held in the Pepys library. Pepys' diary enabled historians to understand more about 17th century London. He wrote extensively on personal finances, weather and food. In addition to day-to-day activities the diary provides a commentary on significant events during his lifetime. These include the Restoration of the British Monarchy, the Anglo-Dutch war, The Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. Collated, complete. In a half calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Rebacked, in the style of the original spines, with the original boards preserved. Externally, very smart with just some patches of minor rubbing to the paper covered boards. Bookplate to the front pastedown of both volumes, Sir John Smith. Internally, both volumes are firmly bound. Pages are bright with minor offsetting and scattered spots, heavier to the first and last few pages. Offsetting from the plates, which have light spots as is usual. Very Good Indeed. book.
Verlag: Henry Colburn, London, 1825
Anbieter: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, USA
Large 4to, 2 vols. (11 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches). [2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix; [4], 348, [2], vii, [1], [3]-311pp. Engraved frontispiece in each volume and 11 engraved plates (one folding)., plus a map of the Action at Sheerness with the Dutch Fleet, including a facsimile of Pepys special short-hand, a family tree, and fine portraits of Pepys and his wife Elizabeth. Three quarter dark green morocco by Zaehndorf, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. A very fine first edition of Pepys' diary. Samuel Pepys, the Secretary to the Admiralty under Charles II and James II, began keeping a diary at the age of 27 and filled six volumes before ending it nine years later. The diary, originally written in code, was housed in the Magdalene College library until the Rev. John Smith, of St. Johns Cambridge, deciphered it between 1819 and 1822, and it was published in 1825. As a leading official in the admiralty for over a decade, Pepys was in touch with some of the most influential men in government. He also carried on a correspondence with Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, and John Evelyn. His observations, written in his secret cipher, are one of the best views and principal sources for many aspects of government, intrigue, and social life in the mid-17th century. "To read Pepys is to be transported immediately into his world. His diary is not so much a record of events as a recreation of them. Not all the passages are as picturesque as the famous set pieces in which he describes Charles II's coronation or the Great Fire of London, but there is not an entry which does not in some degree display the same power of summoning back to life the events it relates.Throughout the diary Pepys writes mainly as an observer of people. It is this that makes him the most human and accessible of diarists, and that gives the Diary its special quality as a historical record" (Robert Latham, The Illustrated Pepys). "The Diary is a great work, as literature, as history, as a psychological document and as a key as to what has been known as the English character.It is thus almost impossible to exaggerate its value and importance" (Richard Ollard, Pepys: A Biography, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974). Grolier, 100 Books Famous in English Literature, 75; New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. II, col. 1583; Lowndes 1828.
Verlag: London: Henry Colbourn, 1825
Anbieter: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, Vereinigtes Königreich
First edition. Two volumes. 4to. xlii, 498, (2), xlix, (1); (iv), 311, (1) pp. Later 19th century brown half morocco over marbled boards with all edges and endpapers matching, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to three panels, "presentation copy" printed in red to both half titles, a pencilled inscription presenting the set to a Lady Williams Wynn on behalf of Lord Braybrooke and his brother the Rev. George Neville, master of Magdalene College, Cambridge on the second free endpaper. 12 full page plates, 1 double page and two illustrations at the beginning and end of the Life of Pepys, volume I extra illustrated with two full page portraits of Braybrooke and Neville. Spines very slightly faded, light wear to extremities, a little foxing towards the rear of volume II, a very good set nonetheless. The first printed edition of Pepys' memoirs, published just over 150 years after their original composition. The diary had been in the possession of Magdalene College for the best part of a century before John Smith decoded Pepys' shorthand. Braybrooke and his brother co-edited Smith's manuscript and whilst acknowledgement of his effort is made in this edition, his contribution was played down in subsequent editions.
Verlag: George Bell, London, 1899
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). 10 volumes. With Lord Braybrooke's notes, edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. Frontispiece portrait, other illustrations. Tall 8vo, 3/4 crimson polished calf, top edge gilt, slight shelf wear. London: George Bell & Sons, 1897-1899. Includes the Index & Supplemental Pepysiana volumes. Very good (+).
Verlag: London: Henry Coburn, 1825
Anbieter: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, USA
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. First edition, 2 vols, 4to (11 1/4" x9"), pp. (2) half title, (i-v), xlii, (1), 2-498, (2), (i), ii-xlix, (1) blank; (2) half-title, (1), 2-309, (1) blank, 2 engraved plates of pedigrees,1engraved plate of handwriting facsimile, 1 folding engraved map, 9 engraved views & portraits. Full red morocco, back in six compartments, gilt lettered in the second, third & fourth, five raised bands between blind fillets. Attractive binding in fine condition. Sheets & plates with some stains & occasional light foxing, some fore edge fraying to first few sheets, unmarked, complete. H9140.
Verlag: George Bell, London, 1893
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
hardcover. Zustand: near fine. 10 volumes. With Lord Braybrooke's notes, edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. Frontispiece portrait and other illustrations with tissue guards and folding plates. 8vo, 3/4 tan crushed morocco, raised bands, ornately gilt spine, by Sangorsky & Sutcliff, t.e.g. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893-1899. Near Fine.
Verlag: G. Bell & Sons, London, 1929
Anbieter: Imperial Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
Leather Bound. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). Ernest H. Shepard. Leather Bound. H: 7 3/4", D: 5 1/4", W: 1 1/2" 1 Volume. Samuel Pepys, Diary 1660-1669. Bound by Riviere & Son in full green morocco with gilt-tooled detailing on the covers and raised band spine. The cover also displays a multi-color inlay figure. All edges gilt with gilt-tooled dentelles and marbled endpapers. Edited by O.F. Morshead with 60 illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, G. Bell & Sons, 1929. Housed in a linen slipcase.
Verlag: Henry Colburn, London, 1825
Anbieter: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, USA
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved frontispiece, xlii, 498p, xlix; Frontispiece, 348p; 309p. Contemporary calf with richly gilt spines and marbled end papers. Bound by Zaehnsdorf with small stamp at the lower corner in both volumes on the inside verso of the front marbled end paper. Expertly re-backed. Includes seven engraved portraits, two pedigree tables, one plate with example of his handwriting, two page map and two views. From the Library of Sir Edward Henry Scott (1842-83) with armorial bookplate. The Edinburgh Review American Edition 1880 p116 describes how Lord Grenville at the request of his nephew Rev George Neville examined the six volumes written in fine script and recognized it as short-hand. Lord Grenville recommended that they find somebody who would take on the task to transcript. Lord Grenville also offered to provide his alphabet and arbitrary signs as well as transcribe the first 'three or four pages'. Rev Neville assigned the task to Mr Smith, then an undergraduate at St. Johns. The Review goes on explaining that it occupied Rev. John Smith (1799-1870) nearly three years and often twelve to fourteen hours a day. The transcript was eventually handed over by Rev. Neville to his older brother Lord Braybrooke who published selections from it in 1825. Grolier 'One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature' p151. Lowndes IV p1828. Kept in a protective case. Very small marginal tear on p39/40 in volume one and with a slight fold in the page. A fresh clean copy of very attractive set expertly re-backed. A nice production printed by S and R. Bentley.
Verlag: G. Bell & Sons, London, 1927
Anbieter: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, USA
Crushed Morocco. Zustand: Near Fine. Later Edition. Finely bound by Riviere & Son (stamp signed at front turn-in) in "Kelliegram-style" in caramel crushed morocco featuring a 5 inch high Pepys holding a candle at center of front cover, surrounded by ornate gilt geometric and floral decorations, same decorations repeated at rear cover. Wide gilt turn-ins with marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Near Fine, a rub to gilt at bottom edge, quite slight rubs at spine. xxiii, 570 pages with 6 pages of maps at rear. A quite pleasing Pepys indeed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: London. George Bell and Sons 1900-1903, 1900
Anbieter: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, Cirencester, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch
10 volumes octavo 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO for Hatchards with raised bands and simple gilt spines, top edges gilt and PEPYS MOTTO AND ARMORIAL IN GILT ON THE UPPER BOARDS. Including volume nine the index and volume ten- Pepysiana. Illustrated. A lovely edition in a substantial and fine binding. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley.
hardcover. 18 volumes. Edited, with extensive additions by Henry B. Wheatley. Frontis. portrait, other illustrations with tissue guards. 8vo, 3/4 green morocco, gilt- decorated spines with raised bands (spines faded to brown), t.e.g. London and N.Y.: Croscup, (1892). Very Good. St. Olave edition, number 32 of 1500 copies.
Verlag: Croscup & Sterling Company, New York, 1892
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. THIS COMPLETE EIGHTEEN VOLUME SET IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN 3/4 CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH MARBLED BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINES WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS AND MINIMAL FOXING. NICELY ILLUSTRATED, BOOKS MEASURE 8"x5.5". LIMITED BRAMPTON EDITION #152 OF 250 COPIES PRINTED. 130 YEARS OLD. A BEAUTIFUL SET IN GREAT CONDITION. First Edition; Limited Brampton Edition #152 of 250.
Verlag: Published for Henry Colburn, London, 1854
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Finely bound fourth edition of the diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys. Octavo, four volumes bound in red Russia with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, each volume decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting including a portrait of Pepys, the Great Plague, the Fire of London, and the Battle of Solebay, illustrated, folding map. In very good condition. "Alexander conquered the world; but Pepys, with a keener, more selfish understanding of life, conquered a world for every sense" (Charles Whibley). "Pepys led a full, varied and voraciously-enjoyed life and clearly took pleasure in setting it all down in plain words. Unlike most frantically busy men, he had remarkable powers of observation" (Paul Johnson). "The bald truth about oneself, what we are all too timid to admit when we are not too dull to see it, that was what Pepys saw clearly and set down unsparingly" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
Verlag: G. Bell and Sons, London, 1935
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
Shepard, Ernest H. 60 illustrations by Ernest H. Shephard; 570 pp. 8vo. In Inlaid Binding by Rivière. The inlay is based on one of Shepard's illustrations of Pepys dressed in a long coat, vest and collar, holding a candle and yawning, illustrative of Pepys' famous line - "And so to bed." The inlay is in eight colors and very well executed. Full green morocco gilt, raised bands, gilt-panelled spine, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with a multicolored morocco inlay on upper cover of a yawning Pepys, candle in hand ("And so to bed"), enclosed by a gilt decorative border, by Rivière and Son, fine 60 illustrations by Ernest H. Shephard; 570 pp. 8vo.
Verlag: The Folio Society: London, 2003
Anbieter: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, USA
11 volumes. Illustr, 9 x 5.75, Nigerian goatskin backed marbled boards, aeg, vp, minor wear else a nice, fresh, clean set in a wooden bookcase (as is: rear wooden panel detached but present). LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED SETS.
Verlag: Bickers and Son, 1 Leicester Square, 1875-79, London, 1875
Anbieter: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Thick Octavo. 6 volumes. Primarily unopened copy. Vol. 1: pp. xxxvii, 535, x [i.e. vi]; Vol. 2: pp. xiv, 521; Vol. 3: pp. xii [i.e. x], 528; Vol. 4: pp. [x], 487; Vol. 5: pp. [ix], 478; Vol. 6: [viii], 526. 45 illustrations as called for, mostly in Woodburytype (a woodbury type is a photomechanical process formed by a layer of colored gelatin pressed upon a sheet of paper in a mold), and also includes facsimiles and folding maps. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 192 prints and engravings relevant to the text including many on India paper, folding plates, folding maps and plans, double-page spreads, and a large folding Pepys Pedigree Chart. Title-pages in red and black. Unsigned binding, handsomely bound in full tan polished calf with triple gilt-ruled border, 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, double, gilt-stamped leather spine labels in red and black, top edge gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmark. Armorial bookplate of Archibald Rogers to front pastedown of each volume. Unopened set, witth occasional minor offsetting from some of the additional plates, otherwise interiors are clean, bright, and crisp. Front hinge of vol. 4 only is split but hanging on, all other volumes are very good and tight. A highly desirable set with the extra illustrations relevant to the text. Handome on the shelf.
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. THIS COMPLETE TEN VOLUME SET IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY THE PUBLISHER IN FULL CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE AND PATTERNING TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD. LEATHER INLAID DOUBLURES WITH SILK PASTE DOWNS. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS OR FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, BOOKS MEASURE 8.75"x5.75". 118 YEARS OLD. AN ATTRACTIVE SET IN GREAT CONDITION.
Verlag: Bell & Sons Ltd., London, 1927
Anbieter: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 570 pp. Hardcover, bound in Kelliegram-style full morocco with inlaid illustration on the front panel, all edges gilt, by Riviere & Son. The spine edges rubbed; scratch rear panel.
Verlag: George Bell & Sons, London, 1893
Anbieter: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, USA
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Frontispiece (illustrator). 1st Thus. Set is limited to 100 copies. Eight volume set bound in blue cloth. Many pages uncut. Volume 1 has a narrow 2 1/2 inch burn mark on the front cover, all covers and spines are lightly spotted, some labels are partially missing but all are readable. Copyright page shows Macmillan and an 1892 date. 100 copies were printed in march, 1893.
Verlag: Henry Colburn, London, 1825
Anbieter: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, USA
Erstausgabe
First Edition. quarto, 2 volumes, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, including 2 frontispieces. Contemporary full leather boards of diced Russia, rebacked to style in brown calf. Internally, quite clean, but for off-setting from the portraits, one portrait with small marginal stain; brown stains on pp. 239-243. Overall a very good copy.
Verlag: London: George Bell & Sons; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., 1899
Anbieter: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. London: George Bell & Sons; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., 1899-1900, Reprint Edition, Ten Volumes Complete. Ten volumes in half leather bindings, with gilt titles, gilt decoration to the compartments, marbled paper covered boards, marbled paste downs and end papers. Spine leather marked and worn, structurally sound and attractive with gilt anchor motif to the compartments. Vol I 1899, lxvii, [i], 367pp, frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Vol II 1899, [iv], 434pp, frontispiece and 2 illustrations; Vol III 1899, [iv], 397pp, frontispiece and 1 illustration; Vol IV 1900, [iv], 424pp, frontispiece and 3 illustrations; Vol V 1900, [iv], 451pp, frontispiece and 2 illustrations; Vol VI 1900, [iv], 408pp, frontispiece and 2 illustrations (one being a folding Scheme of the Posture of the Dutch Fleete ); Vol VII 1900, [iv], 415pp, frontispiece and 4 illustrations; Vol VIII 1900, vi, [ii], 333pp, frontispiece and 1 illustration; Vol IX 1899, (Index Volume), vi, 360pp, frontispiece; Vol X 1899 (Supplementary Volume Pepsyana), viii, [iv], 330pp, frontispiece 11 illustrations, 3 Pedigrees and a folding map of London. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 7 inches tall (18cm). Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles and decoration, relatively minor marks, wear and scratches, minor loss to the top of Vol VIII. Joints good condition sound, gently worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition half morocco with marbled paper covered boards, marked, scratched and worn. Page edges good condition top edge gilt, others tanned and foxed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition secure. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled and subsequently tanned and foxed. Title good condition tanned, with minor foxing. Pages good condition tanned, with some foxing largely confined to the page edges and first and last pages. Binding good condition structurally sound, attractive binding, marked and scratched. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1899-1900 Binding: Hardback.
Verlag: George Bell, London, 1893
Anbieter: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
A gorgeous ten-volume edition of Samuel Pepys Diaries. Very good with edge rubs. Leather is soft, bindings are solid, and gilt is bright. Octavo (14 x 21.1 cm) bound in burgundy and green Morocco.
Verlag: George E. Croscup, 1892
Anbieter: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, USA
Signiert
Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Autograph Edition, #38 of 125 sets signed by the editor on an inserted leaf in volume 1, with special illustrations not included in other Wheatley editions. Bookplate of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing on front endpaper of each volume (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spines faded with a few light spots of discoloration to boards, spine labels toned with some loss, empty envelope with printed address of Eleanor Lansing Dulles (Robert Lansing's niece) laid in. 1892 Hard Cover. Complete in eighteen hardcover volumes, with each pair of volumes paginated continuously (likely reset from a nine-volume edition). lix, 342; 407; 371; 424; 424; 385; 387; 313; 500 pp. Turquoise cloth, paper spine labels. Engraved frontispieces and plates. This edition includes a Pepysiana volume with appendices and an index, plus a fold-out map of London in Pepys's time, three fold-out genealogical tables, and plates, including a photograph of the six manuscript volumes that composed the original work. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy. The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London. The diary was written in one of the many standard forms of shorthand used in Pepys's time, in this case called Tachygraphy and devised by Thomas Shelton. Though it is clear from its content that it was written as a purely personal record of his life and not for publication, there are indications Pepys actively took steps to preserve the bound manuscripts of his diary. Apart from writing it out in fair copy from rough notes, he also had the loose pages bound into six volumes, catalogued them in his library with all his other books, and must have known that eventually someone would find them interesting. Signed by author.
Verlag: Henry Colburn, and Richard Bentley, London, 1828
Anbieter: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
5 + 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary elegant full tan polished calf; spines extra gilt with spine labels in three colors. The second edition (first 8vo) of the Memoirs and the first edition of The Life and Journals. Some light rubbing to the joints; a very attractive set.
Verlag: London, The Folio Society, 2003
Anbieter: Mathias Schoen, Bremen, Deutschland
Buch
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Complete set of this Folio Society reprint of the Latham and Matthews standard edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Limited to 1000 sets bound in half Nigerian Goatskin over marbled boards. All edges gilt. One of the most attractive Folio Society editions, printed on excellent paper and handsomely bound. Books are unused.
Verlag: London: Henry Colburn, 1825
Anbieter: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes. [4], xlii, 498, [2], xlix, [3] pp.; [4], 348, vii, [1], 311, [3] pp. with 13 engraved plates (incl. a 2-page map). Hardcovers, bound in contemporary full polished calf, rebacked, preserving original endpapers. The old edges well rubbed; the plates and adjoining leaves foxed.
Verlag: Bell, London, 1927
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
hardcover. Zustand: fine. Ernest Shepard (illustrator). Illustrations by Ernest Shepard. xxiv, 570 pages, all edges gilt. 8vo, handsomely rebound by Riviere in full tan crushed morocco, ornately gilt spine, full leather inlay picture on front cover, inner dentelles, a.e.g. London: Bell and Sons, 1927. A fine copy, but for one page (113) that has been badly battered at the fore-edge, now mended.
Verlag: Henry Colburn, London, 1825
Anbieter: John's Books, Guildford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dustjacket. First Edition. The first edition of the most famous set of diaries in the English language. Pepys began his journals in January 1660 and stopped writing in 1669 as his eyesight grew worse. He wrote the books in Shelton's shorthand which the diarist had probably learned while a student. It was first deciphered between 1819 and 1822 by John Smith, an undergraduate, and afterwards rector of Baldock. In 1825 half of the deciphered manuscript was edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke and published as the first edition by Henry Colburn, in London. The set has two volumes: the first with xlii and 498 pp, plus a general index, xlix, and the second with 311pp. Large quarto. Handsome leather covered boards to both volumes, both rebacked sensitively and well with original burgundy labels, raised bands, and gilt motifs. Volume 1 has 8 plates, including portrait frontispiece, facsimile of Pepys's writing, and Pepys's family tree. Volume 2 has 5 plates, portraits, folding map, etc. There is some foxing to most of the pages with plates and their neighbouring pages, and some mirroring of plates to opposite pages. Apart from that, the text pages are very crisp and clean, with magnificently clear print. Pages have gilt edges, tops and bottoms. "A document of extraordinary interest, on account both of the light that its sincere narrative throws on the author's own lovable character, and of the vivid picture that it gives of contemporary everyday life, of the administration of the navy, and of the ways of the court" . One of the most important and revealing diaries in English, in a most attractive set. As with many nineteenth century and later editions, Pepys's franker memoirs have been discreetly censored.
Verlag: The Folio Society, London, 2003
Anbieter: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Fine. First Edition thus. Eleven Volume Set. 23 x 14.5 cm. Printed on Caxton wove paper by Cambridge University Press and bound in 1/4 Nigerian goatskin with marble paper covered boards. AEG. Set is limited to 1000 copies of which this is set number 65. Reproduces "The Diary of Samuel Pepys, a new and complete transcription" edited by Robert Latham and William Mathews, Volumes I - XI, done 1970-83, published by Bell & Hyman Ltd with new color frontispieces. The first 9 volumes comprise the diary from 1660-1669, with an introduction in volume 1. Volume 10 is a companion volume while volume 11 is an index volume. Includes the oak bookcase made for the set. Huge set, not available for shipment outside the USA.